Swatches: Wet n Wild Summer 2014 Limited Edition All Access Beauty Megalast Nail Color Collection

Press Sample

NOTE: For my swatches of the Bronzers & Blushes that are also part of the Wet n Wild Summer 2014 Collection, please click HERE.

The Wet n Wild Summer 2014 Limited Edition Megalast Collection is now starting to pop up in stores (click here to see what the display looks like) and I will definitely create a sightings map here on the blog to help us track sightings of this one!

I received this collection from Wet n Wild and when I opened the package, I wanted to start swatching immediately. There's something about a rainbow of bright colors that's so inviting! So let's take a look:

Wet n Wild Summer 2014 Limited Edition All Access Beauty Megalast Nail Color Collection

(retail: $1.99 each, 0.45 oz)

The theme for this collection is summer musical festivals (get it? "all access"?) so all of the shade names have a Cochella-esque vibe to them.

34299 Trippin' on the Boardwalk

(Two coats, no top coat)

Trippin' on the Boardwalk is a cool-toned lavender creme. The first coat had a neon-like feel to it (very sheer and it dried to a semi-matte finish). The second coat evened things about a bit but if you look above, you can see that I probably should have applied a third coat for perfect opacity. Since the first coat was so sheer, I thought I might be able to do a jelly sandwich with this one.

But no:

As you can see, this polish is actually too opaque to do a jelly sandwich (I used Nanacoco Snowflakes for this jelly sandwich, which contains all matte white glitters). So I think this one's best on its own, with three coats. No issues with this one (aside from the sheerness) but it does dry to semi-matte finish so you'll definitely need a good top coat (unless you like the semi-matte look). Dry time was very good on all three coats.

34300 Beat of a Generation

(Two coats, no top coat)

Beat of a Generation is a neutral-toned fuchsia jelly-creme (aka: crelly). This color might appear warmer on certain monitors but it's more neutral in person--not too warm and not too cool. This was practically a one-coater but I always apply at least two coats for my swatches. Perfect application with no issues and this dries to a nice shiny finish.

34301 Contact High

(Three coats, no top coat)

Contact high is bright primary-color-green. It behaves like a standard neon (it's sheer but buildable and dries to a semi-matte finish) but it's actually a very nice jelly!

So naturally I had to try a jelly sandwich with it:

three coats Contact High 

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one coat Nanacoco Snowflakes

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one more coat of Contact High

I love this! Unlike some other neon-ish greens I own, which are so sheer they need at least five coats for decent opacity, this one's pretty darned opaque at just three coats (if you're familiar with neon-ish greens, you know that's impressive!). No issues aside from the sheerness, and all coats dried very quickly.

34302 A Venice Day

(Three coats, no top coat)

A Venice Day is a number-two-pencil-yellow crelly. After three coats, I still had some light streaking with this one, so I would suggest applying a white creme base coat first, just to cut down on the number of coats you'll have to use. Aside from the sheerness, I had no issues and this polish dries at a normal rate to a shiny finish.

34303 Love Me Some Muscles

(Three coats, no top coat)

I apologize if this photo looks a little grainy but my camera hates corals and it loves to distort them! Love Me Some Muscles is a cantaloupe creme that has a little bit of dustiness to it. I think this one's less pink than Wet n Wild Tropicale, but lighter and more orange than Wet n Wild Heatwave (but I'd have to do some swatch comparisons to confirm). It's sheer on the first two coats but it builds to a nice opacity on the third coat. No issues with application--it dries at a normal rate and to a shiny finish.

34304 Coast to Coast

(Two coats, no top coat)

Coast to Coast is a lovely, intense blue with not-so-hidden shimmer. The shimmer is subtle (not frosty at all) but you don't have to be out in full sunlight to see it. I absolutely LOVE this blue and if you don't already have anything similar in your stash, I think you need this one. It's almost a one-coater, no application issues, and it dries quickly to a shiny finish. 

Additional thoughts:

This collection really surprised me. Judging from the bottles, I thought these would all be standard cremes (not that there's anything wrong with that!) but I didn't expect to find a lovely green jelly hiding out here, as well as a show-stopping blue with subtle shimmer. Also, NONE of these polishes stained my nails after removal (yay!). If you could only get one polish from this collection, I would choose Contact High (green) because it's kind of rare to find a bright, neon-ish green jelly that only requires three coats for good opacity. But I also would suggest picking up Coast to Coast--it has reawakened my love of blues (I was almost "over" them, which is crazy, right?).

Have you spotted the Summer 2014 Megalasts in your area yet? Again, these are now starting to pop up in stores, and I'll be creating a sightings map very soon to help us track sightings of the display. 

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